Category Archives: Computing

AWS launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for container hosting

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AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts. Bottlerocket, as the new OS is called, is basically a stripped-down Linux distribution that’s akin to projects like CoreOS’s now-defunct Container Linux and Google’s container-optimized OS. The OS is currently in its developer preview phase, but […] Continue reading AWS launches Bottlerocket, a Linux-based OS for container hosting→

Hitachi Vantara acquires what’s left of Containership

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Hitachi Vantara, the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on building hardware and software to help companies manage their data, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Containership, one of the earlier players in the container ecosystem, which shut down its operations last October. Containership, which launched as part of our 2015 […] Continue reading Hitachi Vantara acquires what’s left of Containership→

Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom and its Global Mobile Edge Cloud

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Google Cloud today announced a new solution for its telecom customers: Anthos for Telecom. You can think of this as a specialized edition of Google’s container-based Anthos multi-cloud platform for both modernizing existing applications and building new ones on top of Kubernetes. The announcement, which was originally slated for MWC, doesn’t come as a major […] Continue reading Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom and its Global Mobile Edge Cloud→

Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations

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Most developers think of Stack Overflow as a question and answer site for their programming questions. But over the last few years, the company has also built a successful business in its Stack Overflow for Teams product, which essentially offers companies a private version of its Q&A product. Indeed, the Teams product now brings in […] Continue reading Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations→

Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

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Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle→

Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer

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“The best-kept secret in quantum computing.” That’s what Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) CEO Ilyas Khan called Honeywell‘s efforts in building the world’s most powerful quantum computer. In a race where most of the major players are vying for attention, Honeywell has quietly worked on its efforts for the last few years (and under strict NDA’s, […] Continue reading Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer→

Databricks makes bringing data into its ‘lakehouse’ easier

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Databricks today announced that launch of its new Data Ingestion Network of partners and the launch of its Databricks Ingest service. The idea here is to make it easier for businesses to combine the best of data warehouses and data lakes into a single platform — a concept Databricks likes to call ‘lakehouse.’ At the […] Continue reading Databricks makes bringing data into its ‘lakehouse’ easier→

Google Cloud opens its Seoul region

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Google Cloud today announced that its new Seoul region, its first in Korea, is now open for business. The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability zones and support for virtually all of Google Cloud’s standard service, ranging from Compute Engine to BigQuery, Bigtable and Cloud Spanner. With this, Google […] Continue reading Google Cloud opens its Seoul region→

SentinelOne raises $200M at a $1.1B valuation to expand its AI-based endpoint security platform

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As cybercrime continues to evolve and expand, a startup that is building a business focused on endpoint security has raised a big round of funding. SentinelOne — which provides a machine learning-based solution for monitoring and securing laptops, phones, containerised applications and the many other devices and services connected to a network — has picked up […] Continue reading SentinelOne raises $200M at a $1.1B valuation to expand its AI-based endpoint security platform→

Google Cloud gets a Secret Manager

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Google Cloud today announced Secret Manager, a new tool that helps its users securely store their API keys, passwords, certificates and other data. With this, Google Cloud is giving its users a single tool to manage this kind of data and a centralized source of truth, something that even sophisticated enterprise organizations often lack. “Many […] Continue reading Google Cloud gets a Secret Manager→